Job Description
Company Description
OHR uses primordial chemistry and synthetic biology to fashion strategic chemicals. Our technology enables the creation of carbon chains of deterministic length without cells, co-factors, or typical oil contaminants. With a core value of sustainability, OHR is focused on building resilient supply chains through innovative solutions.
Role Description
OHR Synbiosis seeks Sr. Research Associates in Chemistry R&D to drive technical developments across R&D groups and between the broader OHR organization. The candidates will assist in, execute, and design experiments in synthetic chemistry routes of OHR’s Creationary ChemistryTM platform, including organic chemistry synthetic pathway exploration and discovery, reaction process optimization, catalyst development, analytical methodologies, product application, and external technical partnership management.
Responsibilities
- Exemplify excellence in lab safety and chemical hygiene practices.
- Perform research and development on OHR’s Creationary ChemistryTM platform. Be a workhorse in the drive to deliver critical chemicals to public and private customers in need.
- Assist in discovery of organic and synthetic chemistry reactions to create novel synthetic routes leveraging OHR’s proprietary enzymatic intermediates.
- Explore chemical reaction development across product pathways, including solvent selection, catalyst elucidation/optimization, reaction conditions, etc.
- Contribute to design, optimization, and scaling of catalytic processes, including acid/base catalysis, heterogenous supported-metal and inorganic catalysis, hydrogenation, and hydrodeoxygenation.
- Generate data to aid analytical methodology development, in-house and with partners, to build quantitative standing of chemical reactions.
- Build testing and characterization protocols for OHR’s aviation and aerospace fuel product portfolio and additional proprietary emerging product portfolios.
- Design, test, build, and validate novel heterogeneous inorganic catalysts.
- Contribute to research and IP strategies to solidify the Creationary ChemistryTM platform.
- Draft, optimize, publish, and train colleagues on technical procedures and specialized reactions.
- Provide detailed data and protocols for technology transfer to OHR’s Manufacturing team and external partners.
- With Project Managers and Executives, implement project management systems to track Chemistry R&D developments and KPIs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry, or equivalent area, from an accredited university.
- Exemplary past demonstration of lab and workplace safety.
- Direct experience contributing to technical chemistry research and development teams through: discovery of synthetic chemistry pathways, contributing to process chemistry and reaction optimization, exploring and selecting or synthesizing and evaluating heterogeneous metal catalysts for hydrogenation and reduction chemistry, discovering or optimizing acid and base catalyzed reactions, or developing of analytical methods of compound identification and quantification, including utilization of GC-FID, HPLC, LC/MS, GC/MS, NMR, and ICP.
- Direct hands-on experience converting established batch reactions to flow/continuous reactions.